Do I have enough power to play those heavy AAA titles?
Do I have enough power to play those heavy AAA titles?
Hello, I want to play Red Dead Redemption 2, Control, Days Gone, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Metro: Exodus, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Odyssey. Also Far Cry 6. Do you have my system ready for that? Here is what I have: CPU is an Intel Xeon W3580 with four cores and eight threads running at three point three three gigahertz (stock). Motherboard is the Intel DX58S0. Memory is twelve gigabytes in Kingston DDR3 1600 MHz, split into four sets of four sticks. Graphics card is an AMD Radeon R9 280X with three gigabytes of GDDR5 and a bit configuration of thirty-eight-four-bit from Sapphire Tri-X OC. Hard drive is a Samsung 870 Evo with fifty hundred gigabytes on a SATA connection. Power supply is the Gigabyte P650B six-hundred-watt eight-plus bronze unit. Operating system is Windows eleven Pro sixty-four-bit. My case is an Nzxt H510 Flow monitor is a Philips twenty-two-six-v four-ls-b two and one point nine two by ten eight zero picture, running at sixty hertz. Can I play these games?
Can it work? Yes. How good is the speed? It depends on what you set up. If your graphics card is an old Radeon model, you could try using a special zone driver called AernimeZone (or the Nimez driver). This might help make your DX12 games run better than the official drivers do.
Sure, it can do it but is the performance good enough to make the game fun? You won't get a smooth 60 frames per second and playing at 1080p will be hard. You might still get a decent result at 720p though. If I had to guess, you should probably manage to play Assassin's Creed Odyssey at 30 FPS with 720p graphics settings if you are okay with some detail loss. For most of these games, playing on 720p is playable for a lot of people. That's based mostly on experience with mobile parts because that's the only thing I know about processing power in the same range as your components. Unfortunately, you won't know if it's worth buying unless you actually try running one of them. If it runs Assassin's Creed or Red Dead Redemption 2, then it will probably run all those games too. But Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a safer choice than Valhalla. If you like shooting action games, the Halo Master Chief Collection should work really well on this hardware at 1080p.
It looks like everyone agrees: it will run but not smoothly or with high details. If you have a graphics card like mine and a processor that isn't great, don't expect to enjoy the game much. That said, I loved Rise of the Tomb Raider on my machine when playing at 1080p low settings. Metro last Light runs okay too, but I haven't tried Exodus yet. My computer struggled with Assassin's Creed Unity so neither Odessey nor Valhalla seem right for it. Like before, you'll never know how it feels until you try it yourself.